Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!!
Warmly, Rupika
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
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General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
This is a great news. A big thank you to all of you who worked on the block over the past 2.5 years. It's great to have the readers of Turkey back to the projects and while many of the editors didn't leave during this time and stayed engaged, a warm welcome back to them as well. And thank you for all the work you did during this time. :)
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:25 AM Rupika Sharma ons3112@gmail.com wrote:
Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!!
Warmly, Rupika
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
Amanda Keton (she/her)
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Great news and welcome back indeed, Natacha / Nattes à chat
Le 16 janv. 2020 à 19:25, Rupika Sharma ons3112@gmail.com a écrit :
Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!!
Warmly, Rupika
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
Amanda Keton (she/her)
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit. Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored... --
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Thanks Amanda for sharing this wonderful news, looking forward to collaborate and work with Turkish Community. All my best wishes.
Best regards, Rajeeb. (U:Marajozkee)
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:12, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit. Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week
of
community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to
Wikipedia
has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks
ahead.
It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident
that
our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know
we
have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as
we
worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a
half
years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and
our
efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
--
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Happy Brithday Wikimedia!
What a great gift to celebrate!
Welcome back Turkey and here’s to another 19 years of free knowledge available in every corner of the world.
RhinosF1 Volunteer
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 19:49, Rajeeb Dutta marajozkee@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Amanda for sharing this wonderful news, looking forward to collaborate and work with Turkish Community. All my best wishes.
Best regards, Rajeeb. (U:Marajozkee)
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:12, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit. Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week
of
community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia
in
Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to
Wikipedia
has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from
Turkey.
While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks
ahead.
It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel
welcome
again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident
that
our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I
know
we
have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online.
We
will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before
the
ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as
we
worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a
half
years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort,
on
behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and
our
efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back
the
people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
--
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General Counsel
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Knowledge as a human right
El jue., 16 de ene. de 2020 17:52, RhinosF1 - rhinosf1@gmail.com escribió:
Happy Brithday Wikimedia!
What a great gift to celebrate!
Welcome back Turkey and here’s to another 19 years of free knowledge available in every corner of the world.
RhinosF1 Volunteer
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 19:49, Rajeeb Dutta marajozkee@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Amanda for sharing this wonderful news, looking forward to collaborate and work with Turkish Community. All my best wishes.
Best regards, Rajeeb. (U:Marajozkee)
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:12, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit. Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy
week
of
community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia
in
Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to
Wikipedia
has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we
celebrate
Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from
Turkey.
While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks
ahead.
It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel
welcome
again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident
that
our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I
know
we
have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move
forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way
to
continue advocating for strong protections for free expression
online.
We
will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before
the
ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts
as
we
worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and continued participation in the movement during the more than two and
a
half
years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort,
on
behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place,
and
our
efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far
from
over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back
the
people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored...
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 01:13, Amanda Keton aketon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from over.
Do we have a central log of these blocks; and steps taken to overcome them?
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